"In seek of the Bluebird: depression tales on Love and Terror, via writer Franco D’Rivera, offers an eclectic and unique collection of inventive pictures of the absurd, based at the zeitgeist of the human in a truth side-stepped, struggling with the iron grip of constrictions. in a single tale a guy unearths himself in love with an international that's fearful of him.

Novuyo Rosa Tshuma has received foreign popularity of her brief fiction. during this, her first assortment – which include a novella and 5 brief tales – Novuyo screens the breathtaking expertise that has noticeable her win a number of awards. She sketches, with dazzling accuracy, the realities of everyday life in Zimbabwean townships and the abnormal intricacies of being a foreigner in Johannesburg.

Len Gasparini is a grasp of the darkish, hard-edged, densely layered tale. In his most modern tale collection, The Snows of Yesteryear, he charts the weather of the human center with compassion, humor, nostalgia, and irony. His characters are formed as a lot by means of destiny as through the hungry ghosts in their personal pasts.